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Reference numberAP/56/5
LevelFile
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the centre of motion in the human eye' by John Lucas Tupper
CreatorTupper; John Lucas (c 1824-1879); British artist; Teacher of Geometrical Projection at Rugby School
Date1874
DescriptionThe paper premises that its argument is conditional, that it adopts all the fundamental optical conditions as they are received, that the received centre of motion is not one of these, but is supposed to be legitimately derived from them, and that Tupper disputes this and proposes first to show that this conclusion is inconsistent with its premises, and that a different though indefinite conclusion is thence derivable; second, by experiment, to develop and reduce that conclusion to a definite form; and third, to verify it by anatomical induction.

Marked on front as 'Archives Jan 7/75'. Contains seven pages of diagrams relating to the eye.

Subject: Physiology / Optics

Received 15 May 1874. Read 18 June 1874. Communicated by S [Samuel] James A [Augustus] Salter.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 22 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the centre of motion in the human eye'.
Extent34p
FormatManuscript
Diagram
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1873.0081
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7917Salter; Samuel James Augustus (1825 - 1897)1825 - 1897
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